Water is necessary not only to quench thirst and help preserve life, but also for socio-economic development.
Oceanologists and hydrologists of the Pacific (TINRO) and other Far Eastern branches of the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) are rightfully proud of their involvement in the study of environmentally-oriented issues of population dynamics of hydrobiological communities and assessment of the state of their habitat.
The UN General Assembly declared March 22 as World Water Day to draw attention to the importance of freshwater and other water resources and their sustainable management. To show the versatility of water resources, each year the events are held under different slogans. The theme of World Water Day 2024 is “Water for the World”, to build the foundations for a more sustainable and humane future.
More than 70% of the earth's surface is covered with water, and most (97%) is salt water from the seas and oceans.
In the structure of the founder of TINRO, the Pacific Scientific and Fishery Station (TONS), the laboratory of hydrology (later - commercial oceanography) was located from the first year of the station’s formation (1925). The first publication on hydrology here was published in the first issue of the scientific journal “Izvestia TONS” (1928) and was devoted to hydrological research in Patroclus Bay based on stationary observations of the first professional oceanographer in the Far East - Gomoyunov K.A.
Along with solving issues of operational importance in the search and delineation of commercial aggregations of aquatic organisms, including within the framework of the analysis of the connection “synoptic situation – hydrological conditions – fishing objects”, topics of a purely oceanographic nature were also considered: analysis of the thermohaline structure and dynamics of water masses, study hydrochemical structure of waters, establishing connections between processes in the sea and the atmosphere.
In the 1980s Scientists have come close to solving the important problem of identifying the dependence of the amount of replenishment of commercial stocks on a set of hydrological parameters that develop in the reproductive zone of aquatic organisms.
Modern methods of oceanology (for example, the use of satellite systems for remote sensing and data processing, Lagrangian analysis) open up new prospects for the development of industrial fisheries through the use of ocean monitoring systems, modeling of water dynamics, visualization and analysis of observational data and reanalysis data based on modern numerical models of ocean circulation .
Future development and identification of new patterns in oceanology, hydrology and related fields depends on further constructive interaction between professionals.
Considering the importance of developing a caring attitude towards water bodies among the population, in order to develop environmental education and foster an ecological culture, the All-Russian campaign to clean up the shores of seas, lakes and rivers “Water of Russia” will be held in the Primorsky Territory from March to October 2024.
VNIRO press service